According to the data from the DPR Representative Office to the JCCC, the armed formations of Ukraine opened fire 16 times on populated localities of the Republic over the past 24 hours, spokesman for the DPR PMD Oleg Nikitin reported at the briefing on February 20

“On the Gorlovka front, militants from the 58th brigade engaged Dolomitnoye, Golmovsky and the village of Gagarin Mine in Gorlovka by using mortars, anti-tank rocket launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms.

On the Donetsk front, war criminals from the 28th, 128th and 92nd brigades armed with mortars, rocket launchers of various types, heavy machine guns and small arms attacked Vesyoloye, Aleksandrovka, Staromikhaylovka, Signalnoye, the village of Trudovskaya Mine and the Volvo Center of Donetsk.

On the Mariupol front, militants from the 10th brigade were firing at the village of Sakhanka with anti-tank rocket launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms.

Information on the scale of destruction and casualties among civilians is being specified.

Materials on the cases of firing at populated localities have been sent to representatives of international organizations stationed in the Republic and to the DPR Prosecutor General’s Office to initiate criminal proceedings against AFU brigade commanders Marchenko, Kaschenko, Zubanich and Kokorev,” Oleg Nikitin reported.